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SUMMARY The malic acid content of pineapple fruit is quite sensitive to changes in sunlight or conditions favoring water evaporation. By contrast, citric acid is unresponsive to these factors. The inverse relation of malic acid in the fruit and evaporative forces may be related to Crassulacean acid metabolism.
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Willis A. Gortner (1963) studied this question.
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